The benchmarks for the 1070 have been out a few days, only the 1080 is faster than it. The 1070 is very slighty faster than the Titan-X, thats a £800+ card, the 1070 is hopefully going to be below the £300 mark. That means this years mid range gaming 970 replacement is faster than everything from last year.

On the AMD front the the RX480 is priced at $200 which is potentially around a 390/970 performance level which is a nice price cut there at that power point. Things are a changing this year.

As Fast Sync was recently given support on older cards I have been using it on my GTX 960 for the last week or two and my word what a difference it makes when you've been limited to either vsync or no vsync for years on end. Setting the render ahead setting to 3 in the control panel also has helped matters and now all my games play with no tearing whatsoever and hit well above the 60fps ceiling I was so used to without any kind of overheating or issue.